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SU01, PFCG, SAP Easy Access and NWBC in relation (SU01, PFCG, SAP Easy Access and NWBC in relation)

Within PFCG it is possible to configure roles. In real life, a role would effectively be the work that a person does within a company or the position held, for example, a salesman or someone working in support. Within PFCG, roles are defined matching the real life roles that people play within a work situation. Specifically a role within PFCG is a set of transactions that a person within a specific role would need for his daily work. In this example, a sales person could have an own role that have transactions to add new customers, display customer details or to enter a new lead.

Given the existence of roles within PFCG that describe the typical work persona, use transaction SU01 to assign these roles to specific users. A user within the system can have any number of roles assigned, which reflects the real work that the person does within the company.

Given the roles within PFCG, the Easy Access menus are displayed directly after logon with SAP GUI. These are effectively the menu trees as have been expressed in one or more roles for each user. This allows the user to very quickly start the relevant transactions for their daily work.

NWBC builds on this same PFCG infrastructure in the ABAP system. The NWBC runtime will retrieve all roles assigned to a specific user and make it available to the shell. The shell uses exactly the same role information to show the user the possible transactions that could help him with his daily work.

As such, we see that shell in NWBC is in the first instance just another expression of the Easy Access menu, providing roughly the same functionality.

However, the NWBC runtime does also extend the usage of the PFCG to make additional functionality available, or to depict the configured data in a different fashion. This chapter will look at the relevant parts of the PFCG that are used by NWBC and also at the additional features that can be configured within PFCG for NWBC.

In addition to the role name and Description, the settings on the following tab pages are relevant for the NWBC:

  • Description

  • Menu

The other tab pages in PFCG are not particularly relevant for the Business Client at present. Remember, however, that your settings will only be activated once you have assigned a user name on the User tab page and saved your settings.

Settings for Role Maintenance

The settings for role maintenance are slightly different in the previous SAP NetWeaver releases. For more information, see 5.2 Improvements in PFCG User Interface.